![]() ![]() Activist groups say babies die in poor areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America because their mothers bottle-feed them with Western-style infant milk. Nestle’s exploitation of the poor goes back more than 40 years when it convinced poor mothers to reject their own breast milk-the one thing poor mothers actually have to give their babies-in favor of its infant formula. Even philanthropic groups like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have drunk Big Food’s Kool-Aid about GMOs “feeding the world.” Actually, GMOs drench the fields of poor communities with toxic pesticides and pollute their waters. In addition to creating obesity, diabetes, heart disease, chronic illnesses and dental degradation, the junk food supplants subsistence agriculture crops with GMO corn and soybeans. ![]() ![]() Supplanting the indigenous diets of people in poor countries with fast food, packaged goods and soft drinks is unethical for many reasons. Nestle calls the junk food hawkers, who are themselves obese, “micro-entrepreneurs.”īig Food is increasingly targeting poor countries as “emerging markets” to please Wall Street and shareholders––perhaps because getting people fat and hooked on junk food in rich countries has plateaued. In Brazil, food giant Nestle sends vendors door to door hawking its high-calorie junk food and giving customers a full month to pay for their purchases. There are now more than 700 million obese people worldwide, 108 million of them children, reported the New York Times in 2017. ![]()
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